English 224 eo ceeRRUNSNTArnen ees eens eae SE OTe aa Seanah limb Moun’ : ae olan apes ta ent Noone Everest she was.a nationel level volybal pi Cae a e i jieves in 2011 while resisting them. One of her legs hag who was pushed out of a running train by thieves in platens to be amputated below the knee as a result. Sinha is from Ambedkar Nagar in , India, She had qualified as a Head Constable in the CISF in 2012 : : Sinha, a former National Volleyball and football player, boarded the Padmavati Express train at Lucknow for Delhi on 11 April 2011, to take an examination to join the CISF. She was pushed out of a general coach of the train by thieves wanting to snatch her bag and gold chain. Recounting the incident, she said "I resisted and they pushed me out of the train. I could not move. I remember seeing a train coming towards me. I tried getting up. By then, the train had run over my leg. | don't remember anything after that" Immediately, as she fell on the railway track, another train on a parallel track crushed her leg below the knee. She was rushed to the hospital with serious leg and pelvic injuries, and lost her leg after doctors amputated it to save her life. She was offered compensation of INR25000 (US$380) by the Indian Sports Ministry. Following national outrage, the Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken announced an additional % INR200000 (US$3,100) compensation as medical relief, together with a recommendation for a job in the CISF. Indian Railways also offered her a job. On 18 April 2011, she was brought to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for further treatment, spending four months at the Institute. She was provided a prosthetic leg free of cost by a private Delhi-based Indian company. An inquiry by the police into the incident threw her version of the accident into doubt. According to the police, she was either attempting suicide or met with an accident while crossing the railway tracks. Arunima claimed that the police were lying. Contrary to the police claims the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court ordered Indian Railways to pay a compensation of INR500000 (US$7,700) to Arunima Sinha. While still being treated in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, she resolved to climb Mount Everest, She was inspired by cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who had successfully battled cancer, "to do something" with her life. She excelled in the basic mountaineering course from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, and was encouraged by her elder brother Omprakash to climb Everest with a prosthetic leg. She contacted Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest, in 2011 by telephone and signed up for training under her at the Uttarkashi camp of the Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) 2012. Sinha climbed Island Peak (6150 metres) in 2012 as preparation for her ascent of Everest On 1 April 2013, Sinha and Susen Mahto, a TSAF instructor, who had together climbed Mount Chhamser Kangri (6622 metres) in 2012 under the guidance of Bachendri Pal started their ascent of Mount Everest. After a hard toil of 17 hours, Sinha reached the summit of Mount Everest at 10:55 am on 21 May 2013, as part of the Tata Group-sponsored Eco Everest Expedition, becoming the first female amputee to scale Everest. She took 52 days to reach the summit. ‘ She was congratulated by the Indian Sports Minister Jitendra Singh on her achievement. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday honoured Arunima Sinha, the first amputee to climb Mount Everest. Chief minister handed over two cheques for an amount of & 25 lakh to sinha at a function organised at her 5-Kalidas Marg residence in Lucknow. These included a cheque of £ 20 lakh from the state government and a cheque of % 5 lakh on behalf of the Samajwadi Party. Chief minister said Sinha by her hard work and determination had climbed the Mount Everest and created a history. Arima Sinha is now dedicated towards social welfare and she wants to open a free sports academy for the poor and differently-abled persons. She is donating all the financial aids he is Getting through awards and seminars for the same cause. The academy would be named pandit Chandra Shekhar Vikalang Khel Academy.English. 2.25, Comprehension Arnima Sinha's Mission in her own words... I have achieved my goal but now I want to help physically challenged people to achieve their goal so that they can also become self-dependent and nobody looks at them with pity. 1 am planning to open a sports academy named " Chandra Shekhar Azad Viklaang Khel Academy” for physically challenged, handicapped people and for that I have already bought a plece of land in Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh. My dream Is to make these physically challenged people achieve their dream. I want to do something for them and for their dreams. Through this academy I want to provide them a platform through which they can prove themselves in this society where physically challenged people are considered as an object of pity. In order to support as many physically disabled and handicapped people as possible, I am striving hard to start this Chandra Shekhar Azad Viklaang Khel Academy. There is something in my heart which is inciting me to do something for physically challenged people like me. I want to train them, make them independent and strong through sports. The objective of my sports academy Is to provide training to people with physical disability and to empower them through our complete support so that they can get equal opportunities and full participation in society. MSBTE Solved Exercise 2.13 Give the contextual meanings of the following sample words using the dictionary. Amputee Someone who had a limb removed by amputation. Paramilitary _ |Group of civilian organized in a military fashion. Resist Express opposition, protest. Overpowered |Become filled with uncontrollable emotion. (v) |Immensely _|To an exceedingly great extent or degree, Vastly. (vi) [Conquering _|the act of conquering (vii) [Rigorous Performed comprehensively, Rigidly accurate. (vill) [Full-fledged _ [Having gained full status, ready to fly. (ix) |Suffocate suppress the development, creativity. (0 [Conquer overcome by conquest, Take possession of by force. MSBTE Solved Exercise 2.14 Answer the following sample questions. (i) Write the meaning of the word: Expedition Ans.: A journey organizedfor particular purpose (ii) Write the meaning of the word: Robber Ans.: A thief who steals from someone by\ threatening (iii) Name the academy started by Arunima and states its motto. Ans.: 1. Arunima started Sahid Chandrashekliar Azad Viklang Khel Academy (Freedom Fighter Chandrashekhar Azad Sports Academy for disabled children). 2. The motto of this institute is to provide the very best sports facility to handicap children, especially the poor, (iv) Name the awards won by Arunima Sinha. Ans.: Arunima Sinha won the award, the Padma Shri, in 2015, the 4th highest civilian award in India.2.28 Comprehension English (v) Express your views/ideas on: Positive thinking. Ans.: Positive thinking is the life and breathes of all success. 1 2. Thinking positively generates positive and creative force both mentally and physically. 3. Ina severe accident Arunima lost her legs. She became physically handicap but the only thing which helped him to climb the mountain is her strong positive thinking. 4, She lost her leg in 11th April 2011 and reached the summit on 2ist May 2013, she climbed the mountain in dramatically short time. It is all only due to positive thinking. (vi) Express your views/ideas on: Reaction to criticism. ‘Ans.: Every walk of life we may be criticized by the people around us. We will be opined by them unnecessarily without our expectations of being helped by them. Sometimes their criticism may or may not be useful for our development so we should take it positively. The great Indian cricketer. Sachin Tendulkar was criticized many a times by the people. But he neither spoke anything nor criticized them in return. He was just making greater records. He never hanged around the criticism, That is why he is a great cricketer and known as a God of cricket. In our life, if we are criticized by the people remember Jim Rohn's line: "What do you think about me is none of my business" (vii) Name the peaks climbed by Arunima Sinha. ‘Ans.: Arunima Sinha climbed the peaks as follows: 1. Mount Everest in Asia (May 2013) 2. Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa (May 2014) 3. Mount Elbrus in Europe (July 2014) 4, Mount Kosciuszko in Australia (April 2015) 5. Mount Aconcagua in South America (Dec 2015) 6. Mount Carstensz (July 2016) (viii) Describe the preparations of Arunima Sinha for the Everest Expedition. Ans.: 1. After meeting Bachendri Pal, Arunima didn't go home. 2, She directly went to join the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering for training. 3. After completing a basic course, she has undergone rigorous training for 18 months to prepare herself for the big day. 4. She climbed various smaller peaks, including Island Peak to prepare herself before conquering the Mount Everest. 5. Tata Steel Adventure Foundation offered her scholarship to meet all her financial requirements so that she can fully focus on her mountaineering task. (ix) Describe the accident of Arunima Sinha. Ans.: 1. Arunima was a sports enthusiast from the childhood- a national level volleyball player. She had a great passion for sports. 2. But, the fate had other plans. On the night of 11 April, 2011, while on her way to Delhi from Lucknow from Padmavati Express train, she was attacked by a group of local robbers. 3. They tried to snatch her gold chain. She tried to resist them. But, being a lonely girl, she could not resist them for longer and eventually, she was overpowered by them. 4, They threw her out of the running train.English 227 Comprehension 5. Another train coming on the parallel track run over her legs. By the time, she reached hospital, the doctors were left with no option but to amputate her left leg below the knee. 6. Her right leg also didn't remain completely immune from that accident. A rod was inserted in the right leg from knee to ankle. (x) Narrate the experience of Arunima during Mount Everest Expedition. ED Ans.: 1. Experience of Arunima during Mount Everest Expedition was so heart breaking. Her Sherpa (the local guide for the expedition) refused to accompany her because he termed it a suicidal mission. 2, Because having one leg totally artificial and another inserted rod from knee to ankle. 3. But she determined to climb the mountain. Her goal was crystal clear. She started expedition on 1* April, 2013 and reached the summit of Mount Everest on 21% May 2013- exactly after 52 days. 4, When she entered the death zone- 3500 feet from the top of Mount Everest - the most difficult terrain started, She saw dead bodies of mountaineers scattered all around. A Bangladeshi mountaineer took his last breath in front of her eyes. 5. She kept moving ahead and convinces us that our body move according to our thought process. 6. She was so convinced that neither she can go back nor she can die before reaching the summit. 7. Just a few steps back her oxygen supply finished, she fell down suffocating for oxygen. She came across an extra cylinder nowhere .Sherpa immediately latched it. finally they return to the base. (xi) Explain the statement: ‘I was re-born at the summit of Mount Everest."" 1. Just after a few steps on the way back, her oxygen supply finished. But, you know, fortune favours the brave. 3. When she fell down suffocating for oxygen, she came across an extra cylinder of oxygen from nowhere. 3. Sherpa immediately latched it on her and finally, they returned to the base, OR Ans.: 1. Inan accident Arunima lost her legs. 2. It was so hard to climb the mountain after an accident .She was almost half dead but aspired to climb the mountain not only world's highest mountain but also six other picks of the world, After these achievements she felt herself reborn (xii) Summarize the success story of Arunima Sinha. ‘Ans.: Arunima Sinha is the first Indian amputee to climb the Mount Everest. Among women amputee for which she was awarded the Padma Shri, the 4th highest civilian award in India. Arunima was a sports enthusiast from the childhood- a national level volleyball player. She had undergone the unbelievable accident. She tried her level best to combat the robbers but they overpowered her and threw her out of the running train, She lost her legs but believed herself. Her self-reliance helped her to prepare for Everest summit and reached to the Everest Summit. It was really the hardest battle. Sherpa her local guide thought that it is not less than suicidal attempt to climb the mountain after an accident. During mountaining, she entered the death zone. Without losing the mental balance she kept on moving. On the way back her cylinder was finished. It was hard to live alive but her strong determination rescued her. She climbed not only the Mount Everest but also five others.“English 228 Comprehension 1. Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa (May 2014) 2. Mount Elbrus in Europe (July 2014) 3. Mount Kosciuszko in Australia (April 2015) 4. Mount Aconcagua in South America (Dec 2015) 5. Mount Carstensz (July 2016) (S-18) (xiii) Describe Arunima Sinha in two to three sentences. Ans.: Arunima Sinha is the first Indian amputee to climb the Mount Everest. Among women amputee, she is the second one to climb the Mount Everest. In 2015, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the 4” highest civilian award in India. ; ‘Previous MSBTE Question with Answer Winter 2017 Q. Attempt the following Summer 2018) Q. Attempt the following 1. Describe Arunima Sinha in two to three sentences. Ans.: Arunima Sinha is the first Indian amputee to climb the Mount Everest. Among women amputee, she is the second one to climb the Mount Everest. In 2015, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the 4 highest civilian award in India. 2. Narrate the experience of Arunima during Mount Everest Expedition. (4m) Ans.: 1. Experience of Arunima during Mount Everest Expedition was so heart breaking. Her Sherpa (the local guide for the expedition) refused to accompany her because he termed it a suicidal mission. 2. Because having one leg totally artificial and another inserted rod from knee to ankle. 3. But she determined to climb the mountain. Her goal was crystal clear. She started expedition on 1* April, 2013 and reached the summit of Mount Everest on 21* May 2013- exactly after 52 days. 4. When she entered the death zone - 3500 feet from the top of Mount Everest - the most difficult terrain started. She saw dead bodies of mountaineers scattered all around. A Bangladeshi mountaineer took his last breath in front of her eyes, 5. She kept moving ahead and convinces us that our body move according to our thought process, 6. She was so convinced that neither she can go back nor she can die before reaching the summit. 7. Just a few steps back her oxygen supply finished, she fell down suffocating for oxygen. She came across an extra cylinder nowhere. Sherpa immediately latched it. Finally they return to the base.